Craig Guyer was my major professor in graduate school. We worked together on projects trying to understand population ecology of frogs and anoles in Costa Rica, but we have also collaborated on systematic and conservation studies of reptiles from the southeastern US.

Ray Hopkins (McDaniel College) was an undergraduate student that I worked with during the 2017 field course “Tropical Ecology in a Changing Planet” offered by the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica. Ray used a clever experimental approach to study the functional significance of alarm calls made by Smoky Jungle Frogs (Leptodactylus savagei) during duress. Ray’s paper is “in press” at Journal of Herpetology!

John Jensen is the state herpetologist for Georgia. John and I collaborated on a long-term mark-recapture study of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii) in Spring Creek, Georgia, where we modeled the species population demography and estimated population viability at that site.

Conor McGowan is my current post-doctoral adviser. Together we are working on population modeling exercises to provide quantitative analyses of extinction risk for imperiled species, as part of a collaboration with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to help them during Species Status Assessments for listing decisions under the Endangered Species Act.

Jamie Oaks was my first post-doctoral adviser; we worked together on phylogenomic projects investigating phylogenetic patterns of salamanders in southeastern North America.

Kelsey Reider (Florida International University). Kelsey mentored me as an undergraduate, where we studied the community ecology of terrestrial frogs and lizards in plantation monocultures La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.

Nelson Rivera (John Carroll University) was an NSF REU student at La Selva Biological Station, and we collaborated on a study describing variation in community structure of glassfrogs (Centrolenidae) at La Selva. Nelson’s glassfrog paper was published in Journal of Tropical Ecology. He is now an MS student at John Carroll University where he is studying the chemical ecology of poisons frogs.

Jackson Roberts (Auburn University) and I overlapped at Auburn, while he was a M.S. student in the Fisheries Department. I modestly helped Jackson on a project where we described two new species of blood flukes inhabiting Musk Turtles (Sternotherus sp.) in the southeastern US, but we also shared millions of discussions about science (and mostly life). Jackson is now a PhD student studying evolutionary biology and herpetology at Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences.